McNamara’s 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe with 390hp 427-cu.in. V-8 Eng.

A 1967 Corvette with just 2,996 miles and a new car smell could fetch $800,000
next month at Mecum Auctions in Huston, Texas.

The coupe was purchased in 1966 by 30-year-old Don McNamara of Colorado
Springs, with $5,000 he won on a trip he made to Las Vegas to celebrate his
retirement from the U.S. Marines.

McNamara died in 2011 and left his estate to his neighbors, who discovered the
car parked in his garage under a shipping blanket along with both American and 
Marine Corps flags.

The Ford Mustang was brought out five months before the normal start of the 1965 production year. The earliest versions are often referred to as 1964½ models, but
VIN coded by Ford and titled as 1965 models with production beginning in Dearborn, Michigan on March 9, 1964^. The new car was introduced to the public on April 17,
1964 at the New York World’s Fair.

Introducing the new 1965 Ford Mustang to the media in the Ford Pavilion at  
the 1964 World’s Fair in New York.

                                    
                                             David Melendy

John Belmont

 
John Joseph Travolta is 60 today